Synopsys, Inc.

Partha Das

Tao Lin

Min Pan

A method of determining a clock tree for a circuit includes, in part, generating a multitude of symmetric clock configurations characterized by a multitude of columns and a multitude of rows. For each symmetric clock configuration, the method further includes, in part, selecting positions of a multitude of tap points defined by a multitude of end points of the multitude of rows, estimating a first cost from a tree root to each of the first multitude of tap points, estimating a second cost from the multitude of tap points to a multitude of clock sinks associated with the multitude of tap points, and determining the symmetric clock configuration cost in accordance with the first cost and the second cost.

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Partha Das